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important theme of the novel A Clean and Well-lighted Place. All the characters in the novel lived in Nada. Nada seemed like the destiny they could not break away from. In fact, Nada reveals the rootlessness of human being’s beliefs. Obviously, the characters in the short story A Clean and Well-lighted Place did not have beliefs. Through the three typical characters, the old man, the middle aged waiter and the young waiter, Hemingway delineated human being’s spiritual state after the First World War. Because of the industrial development and the War, People’s value tended to be various. People’s perplexity, loneliness, depression and rebellion actually reflected the great changes in social thoughts. In the short story, Hemingway makes readers experience Nada. In his opinion, Nada commonly exists in people’s life no matter whether it is realized or not. Moreover, like the characters in the novel, he believed that people can not escape from Nada because of human being’s consciousness of his own existence. Nada is actually the experience of one’s own existence. Nada does not lead to pessimism, and it is the thorough understanding of life. In the short story A Clean and Well-lighted Place, Hemingway used many symbols to convey deep meanings. The Nothingness and Existence coexist in the novel. The lights, shadows and a well lighted place all have symbolic meanings. Although Nada is the real feeling that people can not escape from, the only way to resist Nada is to keep a clean and well-lighted place in the soul, that is, love, sympathy and dignity. Bibliography [1] Zhang Hanxi. Advanced English. Peking: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1995. [2] Zhu Yu. European Culture. Peking: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2005. [3] Zhu Yongtao. Essentials of British and American Cultures. Peking: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2005. [4] 董衡巽．海明威研究[M]．北京：中国社会科学出版社，1985． [5] 海德格尔．海德格尔选集[M]．上海：上海三联出版社，1981． [6] 海明威．海明威短篇小说选[M]．上海：上海译文出版社，1981． [7] 林恩．海明威传[M]．北京：中共中央党校出版社，1981． [8] 李建军．祝福感与小说的伦理境界[J]．小说评论，2006，(4)． [9] 迈耶斯．海明威传[M]．北京：中国卓越出版社，1990． [10] 苏顺强．论海明威的虚无思想[J]．外国文学研究，2000，(1)． [11] 陶洁主编．美国文学选读[M]．北京：高等教育出版社，2000． [12] 吴迈，卢仁龙主编．世界文学经典导读—诗与神的对话[M]．海南：海南出版社，时代文艺出版社，2001． [13] 吴然．“硬汉”海明威：作品与人生的演绎[M]． 北京：昆仑出版社，2005． [14] 夏基松．存在主义哲学评述[M]．江苏：江苏人民出版社，1987． [15] 谢有顺．重申文学的信念［J］．小说评论，2006，(4)． 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。